With VIP (Visually Integrated Phone), you combine the power of
your ESI phone system and Microsoft Outlook to enhance communication in
your day-to-day activities — including the ability to control calls and organize
voice mail and contacts.

VIP captures and logs details about every call for better call
management. In addition, VIP lets you program your phone with just a few
mouse clicks. VIP lets you intelligently do the following from your PC’s
screen:

Manage your telephone calls

Manage your voice mail

Organize your contacts

Log all your inbound and outbound calls

Quickly program your ESI Feature Phone

VIP is easy to implement. It connects to your existing local area
network (LAN) and is non-invasive. There is no need to upgrade the LAN or
install Microsoft Exchange® — thus avoiding a
costly and impractical solution for the small to mid-size business. (VIP
requires Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, or 2003.)

Unified messaging

Manages voice mail and e-mail from the same Outlook
Inbox:

Synchronizes automatically with ESI phone system’s
voice mail — Regardless of whether you use the phone keys or the VIP
interface to handle a voice message, the voice mail display in Outlook
provides a continually updated indication of new, old, and deleted messages.

Shows Caller ID data for each message — Just as ESI
Phones typically show Caller ID information, VIP displays that
information in the Subject line in the Outlook Inbox for each
message.

Plays back through phone — Some unified messaging
products cause all messages to be played back through the PC audio system.
However, VIP uses the audio capabilities in the ESI Feature Phone, so
the user can still pick up the handset to hear messages privately. This also
keeps you from having to use a headset with the PC.

Saves voice messages as .WAV files, but only when
desired — Unlike less intelligent unified messaging solutions, VIP
gives you a choice of whether to save a message as a .WAV file. This spares
your network the burden of moving large .WAV files every time someone in
your office gets a message.

Contact management

Works with Outlook contacts — Keeps all your
contacts in one place.

Synchronizes with ESI phone system’s speed-dial lists
(“Dexes”) — The phone system’s Esi-Dex lists are a valuable source of
contact information. Whenever a contact is added to or deleted from the
phone system list, VIP automatically makes the change in the
appropriate VIP list — Company Speed Dial, Station, or Remote
Location.****